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Top Ten Research Article Collection

Published June 8, 2016 Curated Collections

To commemorate the Fifth Anniversary of the launch of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, we are releasing a collection of the most-viewed research articles from each of the five years that the journal has published. With this collection we hope to highlight the continued impact of our primary research.

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Research Articles

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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000148

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases On the Origin of the Treponematoses: A Phylogenetic Approach
January 15, 2008 Kristin N. Harper, Paolo S. Ocampo, Bret M. Steiner, Robert W. George, Michael S. Silverman, Shelly Bolotin, Allan Pillay, Nigel J. Saunders, George J. Armelagos
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000147

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Method for Rapid Detection of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
February 6, 2008 Zablon Kithinji Njiru, Andrew Stanislaw John Mikosza, Tanya Armstrong, John Charles Enyaru, Joseph Mathu Ndung'u, Andrew Richard Christopher Thompson
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000388

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Risk Maps of Lassa Fever in West Africa
March 3, 2009 Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, David John Rogers
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000414

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Marriage, Sex, and Hydrocele: An Ethnographic Study on the Effect of Filarial Hydrocele on Conjugal Life and Marriageability from Orissa, India
April 21, 2009 Bontha V. Babu, Suchismita Mishra, Abhaya N. Nayak
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000774

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The International Limits and Population at Risk of Plasmodium vivax Transmission in 2009
August 3, 2010 Carlos A. Guerra, Rosalind E. Howes, Anand P. Patil, Peter W. Gething, Thomas P. Van Boeckel, William H. Temperley, Caroline W. Kabaria, Andrew J. Tatem, Bui H. Manh, Iqbal R. F. Elyazar, J. Kevin Baird, Robert W. Snow, Simon I. Hay
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000610

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Strategies for Diagnosis and Treatment of Suspected Leptospirosis: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
February 23, 2010 Yupin Suputtamongkol, Wirichada Pongtavornpinyo, Yoel Lubell, Chuanpit Suttinont, Siriwan Hoontrakul, Kriangsak Phimda, Kitti Losuwanaluk, Duangjai Suwancharoen, Saowaluk Silpasakorn, Wirongrong Chierakul, Nick Day
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000981

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Neuropathic Pain and Psychological Morbidity in Patients with Treated Leprosy: A Cross-Sectional Prevalence Study in Mumbai
March 8, 2011 Estrella Lasry-Levy, Aki Hietaharju, Vivek Pai, Ramaswamy Ganapati, Andrew S. C. Rice, Maija Haanpää, Diana N. J. Lockwood
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0001485

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Virus Identification in Unknown Tropical Febrile Illness Cases Using Deep Sequencing
February 7, 2012 Nathan Yozwiak, Peter Skewes-Cox, Mark Stenglein, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris, Joseph DeRisi
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0001206

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Using Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: A New Model for Neglected Tropical Disease Surveillance
May 31, 2011 Emily Chan, Vikram Sahai, Corrie Conrad, John Brownstein
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0001648

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Surveillance of Dengue Fever Virus: A Review of Epidemiological Models and Early Warning Systems
May 22, 2012 Vanessa Racloz, Rebecca Ramsey, Shilu Tong, Wenbiao Hu